Constructively Addressing the Instability of the Individual Health Insurance Market Jack Urquhart The individual health insurance market requires stabilizing. Without stability, it will continue to deteriorate–premiums will drastically increase, and the number of...
Medicaid Expansion
ACA Medicaid Expansion: December 2014
PBS NEWSHOUR, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/states-choice-medicaid-expansion-affects-hospitals/, reports hospitals in states that approved ACA Medicaid expansion enjoy financial gains, but hospitals in states that refused expansion are paying dearly. The PBS report...
Lawsuits Challenging Obamacare Roll On as Uncertainty Mounts
Lawsuits Challenging Obamacare Roll On as Uncertainty Mounts Obamacare’s “meat and potatoes” is the January 1, 2014 implementation of (1) Medicaid Expansion and (2) insurance coverage through Health Insurance Exchanges. These programs would dramatically increase the...
The Federal Government Must Run Obamacare Health Insurance Exchanges in Most States: Is this Realistic?
The Federal Government Must Run Obamacare Health Insurance Exchanges in Most States: Is this Realistic? The central objective of the 2010 Obamacare health reform act is reducing the number of uninsured by January 1, 2014; an objective it planned to achieve with 1)...
The Breathtaking Power of Medicare Contractors
The Breathtaking Power of Medicare Contractors ©Jack Edward Urquhart The power wielded by private Medicare Contractors is breathtaking. But this secret is well hidden within the dense web of laws, regulations, guidelines, policies and practices that is our federal...
The Affordable Care Act Reduces the National Debt (Part Two in a Series)
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) reduces the national debt according to the most reliable evidence. Howling about the cost of the ACA is misplaced. How can the ACA possibly reduce the deficit? Partisan hysterics shriek that the ACA insurance coverage provisions,...
Should Texas Accept or Reject the Medicaid Expansion? Part One
The Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA) expands Medicaid to all persons under age 65 with individual incomes of about $14,500 or less. Rejecting this ACA expansion would cost Texas about $52.5 billion in federal funds and leave 1.4 million low-income Texans without any...